Chrome 50 Updates Push Notifications, Drops Support For Old Windows and OS X Versions (venturebeat.com)

An anonymous reader quotes a report from VentureBeat: Google today launched Chrome 50 for Windows, Mac, and Linux, adding the usual slew of developer features. You can update to the latest version now using the browser's built-in silent updater, or download it directly from google.com/chrome. As announced in November 2015, Chrome now no longer supports Windows XP, Windows Vista, OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, OS X 10.7 Lion, nor OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion. Chrome 50 allows sites to include notification data payloads with their push messages. This eliminates the final server check -- the initial version relied on service workers to proactively fetch the information for a notification from the server, leading to problems when there were multiple messages in flight or when the device was on a poor network connection. Push notification payloads must be encrypted. Sites can now detect when a notification is closed by the user, resulting in better analytics and allowing for cross-device notification dismissal. The look of notifications can now be customized with timestamps and icons. Chrome 50 also brings support for declarative preload.

Comments

Re:XP I understand

[JBMcB]

I never got why people like development on Mac.

Because of this:
https://developer.apple.com/li...

Yeah in Windows you have PowerShell, which is so awesome Microsoft is doing this:

http://www.theverge.com/2016/3...

older OS X versions

[WheezyJoe]

Unfortunately, there IS a reason some people may not want to upgrade OS X: some older Macbook Pros have a hardware flaw in their GPUs, and later versions of OS X panic (i.e., crash) with these machines where the older versions don't. Then there are the poor souls who just can't bring themselves to retire their PPC-based models. I mean, c'mon - the Luxor Lamp iMacs still look pretty damn cool. Generally, OS X upgrades are very worthwhile, but some people with hardware that's 5+ years old but otherwise working fine are getting the pinch.

Re:Dropping Vista support??

[PRMan]

You can do any sort of speed test you want on Vista and then upgrade to Windows 7 IN PLACE and that same speed test will be improved. This is true regardless of Vista or Windows 7 version, because they rewrote the kernel for 7 removing tons of dead code and increased the multi-threading that the OS does by default.

Re:XP I understand

[AmiMoJo]

Is a shell really a big deal for most developers? For what I do with it as an embedded and desktop developer I only make light use of it, and the web/cloud guys hardly use it at all. If you are administering servers it's all SSH anyway and Windows has plenty of good SSH clients like Putty.

What sort of development tasks does an advanced shell help with?

This stops Google's "PUSH-iness" easily

[Anonymous Coward]

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